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Bright & early next morning, wearing two wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...
...Though the pilot pulls hard on his stick, the plane has little lift, comes out of a dive very slowly...
...single-minded man who has dedicated himself to warfare. He is a battleship man by upbringing, but he is no "battleship admiral." During the raid on Truk, airmen privately and bitterly complained because he sent battleships in to finish off Jap warships which had already been damaged by dive bombers. Airmen thought they should have had the glory of the final kill...
...some 100 yards away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming the dive of a Stuka, brownish parachutes flapped open no more than 200 feet above us and gliders began to steer toward the ground just in front of us. We looked at each other and knew that there was no escape...